As a young officer in the French and Indian War, Washington was involved in a devastating friendly fire incident. Military ...

In 1758, during the French and Indian War, the future president saved lives by stepping into the middle of a deadly skirmish in Pennsylvania ...

Years later, he wrote that his life was in as “much jeopardy as it ever had been before or since.” Washington was pursuing a ...

In the early months of the American Revolution, Daniel Morgan and his soldiers raced north to join the Continental Army ...

France is a country where history still feels alive, with centuries of culture, power, war, and art leaving their mark across the cities, villages, and countryside. You can wander through medieval ...

In the Treaty of Paris France ceded Canada to Britain and the Louisiana Territory, including New Orleans, to Spain. Spain gave up its claim to Florida. Shortly after the Treaty, King George issued a ...

George Washington was president when a group of bois ‘d arc saplings were first beginning their growth in the soil of ...